In this Dot Com World, everyone is in the race of becoming its own boss and joining the ever growing line of entrepreneurs, but, the successful ones can be counted on finger tips. Why is this? Why only a few succeed whereas the majority fails? Entrepreneurship is not a cakewalk, it requires hard work, dedication and willingness to work tirelessly, success is all about a perfect idea executed perfectly. These two things work hand in hand with each other and, if followed, can make you a successful businessman. Coming up with a perfect idea is not enough unless it is executed with carefully devised plan while proper planning may not work if your idea id stale. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t fulfill your dream of becoming an entrepreneur, know your aim and take time in transforming it into a creditable idea.
Here you will get to find out the 5 crucial things that can hinder your way of becoming successful entrepreneur.
- Having Self-Doubt
Ask any successful person about what is the most required thing to become successful, their answer would be to believe in yourself, to believe in your idea. It is this belief that keeps you going forward even in times of severe hardships and difficulties. People with no self-value are most prone to fail in everything they do because self-belief is the driving force without which, to move on is like driving a car without any fuel in it. Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page & Sergy Brin and Mark Zuckerberg, all these people were driven by their belief in themselves. They never let self-doubt become an excuse for giving up.
- Misunderstanding the Concept of Success
Success is not a point where, after reaching, you can claim to be successful, rather success is very the process you must go through to achieve your dream goal. Let’s elaborate this with an example. For instance, it is someone’s desire to own a sports car and he sets a goal to buy his dream car in 5 years’ time, he plans his journey and start working accordingly. But right after a week, he wins that same car in a lottery. He did not have to work hard for the car and it did not even take him a month to sit in the driving seat of his dream car.
Will you consider this man successful since he acquired what he wanted? I know your answer may vary, some of you might think that he is successful whereas some of you might think otherwise. Though he has the car he desired and wanted but, since, he did not have to struggle and undergo the process, winning a car would not make him a successful person.
Success is more about the work done every day and night, the constant and continues struggle, the unending battle with negative thoughts each day, being ready to be bullied, persecuted and wronged on each step and the sacrifice made every now and reaching what or where one wants. The true essence of success is in the hard work and effort one puts in standing for what he believes is right.
- Fearing Failure
We cannot help and control different kinds of thoughts that come to our mind but we always have a choice to choose the thoughts to dwell on. It does not take anything else to become successful but the courage to move on despite the negative thoughts that you are bombarded by. Now, many people misunderstand the concept of courage, basically, courage is not the absence of fear; courage is doing what is right despite being fearful. You, if, cannot control what thoughts you dwell in, then soon you will be taken over by your negative thoughts because negative thoughts do not need to work hard and giving up is easier than continuing the journey.
You will have the fear of failure because it is inevitable and believe us, it is completely natural. What matters most is how you deal with this fear of failure, either you choose to continue following your dream or give up because of your fear.
Fear of failure is the very cause of failure!
- Trying to Please Everyone
If you want to face failure at every step of your life then start pleasing everyone else. Want to become successful? Start ignoring what people have to say about you. The 3rd point discussed above, the fear of failure, is connected to this 4th point. Many people do not fear failure but the consequences of failing hold them back. People fear that they will be laughed at, made fun of, if they fail. So in reality what they fear is people’s reaction to their failing. In our society, people are more concerned about what others may say about them, which leads to the falling of the brightest of ideas. We are taught to follow the accepted standards of society, which leads us to ignore ourselves and what make us content, this is where a successful person comes in. Entrepreneurs are known to follow their ideas and what they think is right for them and this is one of the driving forces of a successful business, to be unique.
- Blindly following Others
One of the success killers is to blindly follow a set trend. Many people try to make something work for them because it has worked for someone else. They forget that following others’ footsteps basically makes you lazy, limits your vision & thinking. We are not saying that following someone or something is bad but following blindly is a real culprit and major hurdle of your success. Analyze your idea and see if it has the essentials of a distinctive idea, research everything you need to know about your idea and the business you want to have and plan vigilantly. Do not follow others because things are working about them, you must have heard the saying,’ One man’s meat is another man’s poison’, this is the case with everyone, do not be afraid because you may fail, it’s alright, it happened with the most successful of people. The main thing is to stick to your identity.
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